In the garden of a friend of mine (Marsha Russell), she had scads of Anthyllis vulnerariacoccinea; what an eyeful of blazing red color :o :o. I'm not sure about the true name of this color form, I have seen it listed as rubra and coccinea, but these must be illegal latinized cultivar names, because even though there are scads of varieties of Anthyllis vulneraria, I don't find a var. or ssp. coccinea anywhere. Marsha pulls out most of them each year, otherwise they'd probably take over the garden, but not to worry, they always come back from abundant self-sown seedlings.

Anthyllis vulneraria is common on sandy soil many places in Norway, even in the mountains. Usually it is yellow or orange. I have never seen reds in the wild but I know the subspecies A. v. ssp vulneraria can be red. I grow both the red and the yellow form at my cabin in the mountains.

Here are some of my red flowered plants for the moment:1) Lewisia cotyledon-hybrids are very popular here and seem to tolerate the winter wet. with reasonable drainage.2) Phygelius capensis is often evergreen except the worst winters.3) Rhemannia elata is monocarpic. It often flowers first year from early sowing but unflowered rosettes flower next summer.